“Pure and perfect , meet arbutus, 
Twines her rosy-tinted wreath." —Elaine Goodale. 
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f\Y) El<^ai?t Deqoratiu^ piapt. ! WATE"R ■HyACI/NTH. 
This is a very 
beautiful and 
rare plant for all 
decorative pur¬ 
poses. It is also 
one of the few 
plants that may 
be successfully 
grown out of the 
sunlight. The 
foliage is beauti 
fully striped 
crosswise, with 
broad, white 
bands in dark 
green back¬ 
ground and is 
very unique and 
fancy in appear¬ 
ance. The flow¬ 
ers are borne in 
large s p i lc e s, 
about one foot 
in height, above 
the foliage, and 
SAXSEVIEIIA ZEALANICA. 
are composed of long, narrow, recurving 
petals, of a handsome creamy white col¬ 
or. 11 makes a beautiful center plant for 
hanging baskets or vases. It always 
looks bright and healthy. 
Strong plants, each , 80 cent s*. 
VICK’S 
This is undoubtedly the largest and best of Asparagus grown. We have 
catalogued this variety for the past two years, having obtained our original 
* 
stock seed from Mr. A. Donald of Elmira, 
X Y. We now note, with surprise, that 
this seed is being offered for the first time 
this season as a Novelty, under the 
name of Doxald’s Elmira Asparagus, 
by a Philadelphia Seedsman. 
^In color it is a bright green, very ten¬ 
der, and when cooked there is compara¬ 
tively little waste. It is the most desir¬ 
able for market garden use. 
Price , per packet , 10 cents; ounce , 25 
cents; Two-year roots, 200 for $1.00. 
The plant grows from 18 to 30 inches high and 
the variety might well be termed a combination 
bean as the pods when quite young may be used 
as a Snap Bean and later it can be shelled and used 
as a Lima Bean. It is immensely productive and 
the plant is an interesting sight to look upon with 
its broad flat pods, containing each three to four 
beautifully colored variegated beans similar in 
shape to the well-known Lima. Our grower 
“writes, that 20 bushels were grown on a little 
over a quarter of an acre. Planted in May (in 
Georgia), a crop of matured beans was harvested 
July 1st. I planted seed that I gathered, the lat¬ 
ter part of July; and harvested a fine crop of 
ripe beans before frost, thus securing the two 
crops in one season. Many pods had three to four 
beans when Henderson Bush Lima had but two 
or three.” 
Read the fallowing: 
Dear Sir:—Yours requesting my “full opinion 
of the Jackson Wonder Bean” received. In re¬ 
ply I would say that it is entirely different from 
any bean I have seen. It is more prolific, yielding 
enormous crops. It is less dependent on rain, 
growing about as well in dry as wet weather. It 
meets a felt want, in that it requires no sticking. 
It is a bush bean. It is superior as a table bean to 
any I have ever tasted, whether taken green or 
dry. It is a very early bean, raising t wo crops in 
a season. It is not waxy, and hence cooks easily 
and quickly. It seems to till every requirement* 
for the best of garden beans. As a forage plant, 
it will yield an enormous crop of ensilage or dry 
forage. It is an invaluable acquisition. 
Yours truly, 
JAS. B. HUNNICUTT, 
Professor of Agriculture, University of Georgia. 
Price , per packet, Jo cents , or pne packet each of 
the four bush Lima's , Burpee's , Drecr's . Hender¬ 
son's and the Wonder Beans for UO cents. 
The Water Hyacinth is a plant of great beauty. It floats on the water 
i by means of curious inflated leaves, from which great masses of feathery 
blue roots grow downward. The plant takes the form of a large rosette, 
and throws beautiful spike of 
Hyacinth-like flowers that are 
as beautiful as an Orchid. Each 
flower is about two inches in 
diameter and of a beautiful, 
sparkling rosy-lilac color. 
The plant is of the simplest 
culture imaginable, all that is 
required is to place it in water, 
in a pail or tub in the open air 
in summer. For window' cul¬ 
ture in winter, 
a glass vessel 
is preferable, 
as it shows 
the feathery 
growth of the 
roots to great 
advantage. 
Every lover of 
the new and 
novel should 
grow' It. 
Strong blooming plants, each, 25 cents; five for one dollar. 
“ My peerless darlings of sun and rain , 
When did I seek your velvet lips in vain?" 
Mrs. Helen Rich. 
THE 
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